Posted on Thursday, 30th July 2009 by Balazs
Aix allows extending a filesystem on the fly. This feature has been around for over 15 years. I first used it with AIX 3.1. What an AIX system is intalled, it can be set up with minimal requirements and then each filesystem can be grown on the fly as needed. In [...]
Posted on Friday, 23rd January 2009 by Balazs
In a world of storage on demand and virtualized environments, adding more storage on the fly has become simple even on Linux machines without expensive software like Veritas storage manager. Here is how to proceed:
need to use LVM or LVM 2
add the new disk as an LVM capable physical volume: pvcreate /dev/sdb (or hdX)
add the [...]
Tags: add disk, Linux, LVM, resize, storage
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